Mahima A. Jain

Freelance Reporter and Editorial Consultant @theplainjain

Mahima A. Jain is a writer and editor based in Bengaluru, India. Her project for IWMF’s Reporting Grants for Women’s Stories program will focus on how the agrarian crisis affects women farmers in South India. She will also look at farmers collectives and agro-ecology initiatives that empower women farmers to find sustainable livelihood. She has previously worked as editor with The Hindu Group in Chennai, the Indian Institute of Human Settlements in Bangalore, and the London School of Economics' South Asia Centre in London. She was the recipient of the Earth Journalism Network Grants in 2018 and 2019, the UNESCO-Sahapedia Fellowship in 2018 and the NTICVA UK Visiting Fellowship in 2015. Her writing has appeared in The New Internationalist, Mongabay.com, BBC, Scroll.in, The Hindu among other publications.

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“No One Knows About Me.” India’s ‘Left-Behind’ Women

As India’s men migrate in the millions, ‘left-behind women’ keep India’s rural farm sector running. But they have no liberty, land rights or even the acknowledgement that they are employed. The story of women like…
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Kerala’s Attempt to Revive Traditional Farm Practices Puts Tribal Women at the Forefront

Poonama, a marginal farmer from Agali in Kerala, in her farm. | Mahima Jain/Mongabay Kaliamma Nanjan, 70, sings as she cuts through her farm in Kerala’s Western Ghats. She deftly navigates the slopes of Attappady…
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Agrobiodiversity initiatives open women’s horizons in Kerala

Agrobiodiversity is the sustained management of various biological resources including multi-cropping, trees, herbs, spices, livestock, fish species and non-domesticated resources within fields and forests. Mainstreaming agrobiodiversity initiatives can address complex problems such as nutritional security,…